6:18 pm, November 21, 2014
Match flow in PvP is affected by everything from team formation and arena queuing to the way players actually enter matches. I’m happy to announce that the process players use to enter PvP a [..]
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7:18 pm, October 24, 2014
Only this weekend’s World Tournament Series Invitational Qualifier stands between the top PvP teams in Guild Wars 2 and the Finals event in Beijing, China, where players fr [..]
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7:18 pm, October 8, 2014
We’d like to cordially invite you to join us tomorrow in celebrating the 50th tournament of the ESL Weekly Cup a PvP tournament hosted by our community organizers and shoutcasters each week, [..]
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7:18 am, September 27, 2014
The Guild Wars 2 World Tournament Series will name a champion this December in China!
Its our first truly international tournament, bringing together top PvP teams from North America, Europe and Chin [..]
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7:18 pm, September 23, 2014
From bright displays of color to incendiary gathering tools, this week the Black Lion Trading Company is all about setting yourself apart from the crowd. Read on to learn about our two new permane [..]
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7:18 pm, September 16, 2014
This week, the Black Lion Trading Company is proud to bring you a grisly finisher for your foes, a beautiful back item, and another addition to our home instance gathering collection. Read on to l [..]
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7:18 pm, September 5, 2014
Thank you all for making this years gamescom such a success!
This year we were excited to partner with Twitch, and work with them to bring Guild Wars 2 to the show floor and to the [..]
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7:18 pm, September 4, 2014
As part of the upcoming feature pack for Guild Wars 2, well be shipping a change thats been a long time in the making: a brand-new Trading Post! Weve put a lot of work into it to str [..]
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7:18 am, August 29, 2014
I don't feel like they're at all addressing any of the actual needs of the game. New backpacks, a cleaner crafting UI, and new commander colors are all very nice things. But where is precursor craftin [..]
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7:18 pm, August 26, 2014
Guild Wars 2 app developers, get ready to flex your creative muscles: weve partnered with Overwolf to bring you the Guild Wars 2 WvW App Challenge!
Were looking for [..]
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7:18 pm, August 22, 2014
This weekend, play witness to the finals of the biggest tournament in Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 history! The Tournament of Legends 2 started with a total of 256 teams, and [..]
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7:18 pm, August 19, 2014
So my server successfully downed Tequatl today. It was the first time I personally had even attempted the revamped boss since returning to the game and it was AWESOME.
That single win was far more gr [..]
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7:18 pm, July 11, 2014
Tune in for the Tournament of Legends 2 qualifiers this weekend!
Play witness to the early rounds of the biggest tournament in Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2 history, with over 400 individual teams sig [..]
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7:18 am, July 9, 2014
Okay so, if you run Berserker armour and so on that's fine, I understand it's uses and if you want to run it in your build, that's great.
One thing I am getting tired of though is people are always d [..]
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7:18 am, July 2, 2014
First just look at her armor.It's Light armor From the Elementalists Sets.
This is a dead give away in itself,but that not all.Taimi can put Static Field and even use Shocking Aura. [..]
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7:18 pm, May 2, 2014
Congratulations to the Civilized Gentlemen, winners of the European Tournament of Legends! Its not over yet though; the North American Tournament of Legends starts tomorrow!
Join John Blu Mullen and [..]
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3:16 pm, April 25, 2014
I was pretty hyped when the game was released and got some friends to join me as well.
However, they powerleveled to 80, got bored after 1-2 weeks since there was "nothing to do" and left th [..]
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9:16 pm, April 22, 2014
A new week means new items and savings from the Black Lion Trading Company! Read on to learn about this weeks news!
NewLawless Helm and Shoulders!
Show off you [..]
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3:16 am, April 16, 2014
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We here at the Black Lion Trading Company have been busy preparing to bring some exciting inventory changes online. Were proud to present you with three brand-new armor skins, five f [..]
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9:16 pm, April 14, 2014
The April 2014 Feature Pack launches tomorrow! Among the many exciting features that well be introducing is the account Wardrobe system, which makes it easier than ever to collect every possible look [..]
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9:16 pm, April 1, 2014
Greetings fellow Tyrians! Allie Murdock here; Community Coordinator at ArenaNet. Im excited to announce our first GuildWars2 Tournament of Legends on April 26-27 for Europe and May 3-4 for North Ameri [..]
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8:16 pm, March 27, 2014
Were implementing some changes in the upcoming feature patch to the economy and want to tell you about them now. Were excited about what these alterations will mean for the game.
The End of Repair Co [..]
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8:16 pm, March 26, 2014
A lot of people are concerned about legendaries no longer being special. A lot of people feel cheated for making 2 of the same legendaries. Here is my proposal that may or may not address the issues:
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8:16 pm, March 21, 2014
Yesterday we introduced you to some of the upcoming changes to the traits system. Those changes, while exciting, are just one part of the balance updates bundled into the April 2014 Feature Pack! Toda [..]
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8:16 pm, March 20, 2014
First up, I mapped my PS4's Dualshock 4 controller to GW2 and thought I'd let you guys know how it's been going, and thats FANTASTIC! For the past 2-3 months when I play I play with the DS4 and recent [..]
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2:16 am, March 14, 2014
In GW1
I've been thinking about this for a while now. I have birthday presents now on my toons (who are naked, now). Are there enough people playing for me to login and give 'em away?
My question is [..]
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8:16 pm, March 7, 2014
We extinguished the molten alliance, blew up the aetherblades, poisoned the toxic alliance, and finally ****** scarlet in what to me felt like five seconds. . . But that doesn't stop what's coming fro [..]
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2:16 am, February 24, 2014
What is Damage Downtime?: DDT is the time spent not attacking that is unrelated to an attack's central action window.
What increases DDT?: Dodges, Movement, Knockdowns, Interrupts, Fear, etc.
Why ca [..]
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8:16 pm, February 7, 2014
Let it never be said that we here at the Black Lion Trading Company dont value our customers. Read on to learn about this weekends savings and sales!
Sale: Character Slot Expansio [..]
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2:16 pm, February 3, 2014
The purpose of this thread is to discuss Condition Damage in the game whether you think it's fine, is completely broken, or could just be tweaked to be more useful.
My thoughts:
Instead of a global [..]
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2:16 pm, January 24, 2014
Why or why not?
Before you instantly say "Yes" or "No" consider that they are two different games with two different mission statements, systems, and almost two different genres; [..]
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8:16 pm, January 23, 2014
Looking to satiate your competitive urges? Weve got you covered. Whether you want to watch some high-level gameplay or jump into the action yourself, weve got Guild Wars 2 tournament [..]
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8:16 pm, January 23, 2014
Hi all.
So, I'm hoping you've had a chance to try out the new temp world event, and formulated your own opinions on it.
Personally, my reaction is that it's a nice change. Seems like a mix of tower [..]
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8:16 pm, January 23, 2014
Interview:
http://www.gamerzines.com/mmo/sacred-destroyed-pondering-guild.html
The point that were making is this Guild Wars Living Story is finally beginning to pay off and over the next four rel [..]
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8:16 am, January 12, 2014
Forum: https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/professions/balance/PvE-Revising-the-DPS-Meta/first#post3480529
Reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/1uyt5e/some_steps_will_be_taken [..]
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2:16 am, December 19, 2013
Writing for Guild Wars 2 is a hugely collaborative effort, and at times that collaboration transcends the sum of its parts. Sometimes a character takes on a life of its own and we, t [..]
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2:16 am, December 11, 2013
Although the nights are long and dark, folks all over Tyria are in good cheer Wintersday has begun! Snowball fights, festive activities, and (best of all!) toys all help to keep joy alive through the [..]
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8:16 am, November 18, 2013
So at this stage I'm mostly just the guy who wrote that lore summary once and drops by like once every year to contribute something, probably half-finished, and then leaves because Guild Wars 2 just h [..]
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8:16 am, November 11, 2013
Is this a good idea or ripe for abuse? I just saw this pop up in reddit. I know some players aren't coming back at all to the game for one thing or another but will this bring back the ones that wande [..]
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6:01 am, November 6, 2013
I've heard of games breaking promises, but it at least takes the community over a year before they can call bullcrap on all aspects of said promises. In the case of GW2 it only took 3 months, and we'r [..]
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11:43 pm, October 26, 2013
Ok so to start I'm still an active player on GW2.
I haven't played a load of MMOs but of the ones I've played I really like it. I like the little bit of grind that there is in the game and I like to [..]
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2:43 am, October 24, 2013
So today I was greeted in my email box with an email that saved my 60$ purchase. But now I'm wondering if there is anything else I can do to protect my account other than changing my password?
I gue [..]
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9:16 pm, October 23, 2013
So, I've been away from the GW2 scene for a while now... I just got kinda fed up with the direction of the game somewhere around the Tequatl rehash/ascended weapon introduction. I h [..]
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7:33 am, October 18, 2013
https://forum-en.gui...irst#post601067
QuoteI worked way too hard on [the lion statue in Lion's Arch] to throw it away! That would make me cry. [...] Not that we will never permanently destroy anythi [..]
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9:16 pm, October 17, 2013
By the third night, the mob around Castle Thorn had grown so thick that their bonfires reached the river, making a constellation of pyres that stretched as far as King Oswald Thorn could see.
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3:16 am, October 17, 2013
Source: http://www.guildwars.com/events/tradeshows/gc2007/gcspeech.php
Jeff Strain, one of the three founders of ANet, was asked to make a speech about how to make an MMO. I would like to provide a f [..]
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9:16 pm, October 15, 2013
Edrick was a monster, he brought his family shame
So the locked him in a box, mouth stuffed with candy corn
But now the son has risen to take his fathers name
Beware the Bloody Prince, the son of [..]
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12:54 am, October 13, 2013
I keep bringing up solo, repeatable on-demand content here and I figured I'd actually make a thread about. This probably won't be just about that, but with a title that's "slightly" open to [..]
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10:38 am, October 12, 2013
Path 1 of SE is the new one they have completely broken. It's near impossible with out getting an exploit perfect. Try and do it the normal way? You have no chance.
Honestly, people actually start to [..]
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5:41 pm, October 11, 2013
So,
I have done quite a few dungeons so far, ranging from level 30 to 80. Overall, I am very happy with them, I think they are great fun and the rewards are usually pretty good.
As far as some of th [..]
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1:41 pm, October 10, 2013
Recently just tried to run CM. Seemed to be more mindless than I remember, spending more time looking at the map to respawn than actually fighting and having fun.
I hear they beefe [..]
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12:21 pm, October 10, 2013
Greetings,
I find myself writing here the fourth time already, haha, sorry about it, but I've no idea what the hell's going on anymore. Once again, I hope it's okay to post in this part of the forum.. [..]
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12:38 pm, October 9, 2013
Looking at market prices from launch until now of staple items we see a clear trend of decreasing price, namely exotic armors and weapons. This is partly because [..]
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8:18 pm, October 8, 2013
I understand I'm going to receive a lot of flac for posting this but I just feel it has to be said. I'm only lvl 12 and already the game is aging quite badly for me. I'm going to try promptly outline [..]
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3:09 pm, October 8, 2013
How dare I say such a thing. Kinda long rant here.
But really, there are 2 forms of PvP for a non-hardcore player like me: random sPvP and WvW.
Both of them, both of them feel like zergfests. And I' [..]
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8:17 pm, October 7, 2013
I just read the patch notes for the last patch. I was wondering what exploit they were patching with the Guild Bank. Then it hit me....DUH! Cou [..]
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2:23 pm, October 7, 2013
First: (from facebook)
We had a great day at gamescom today! We met lots of fans and had fantastic conversations with you all. We really appreciate your love and support and for coming out to speak w [..]
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2:08 pm, October 7, 2013
First of all, let me just say that i stay away from "QQ" threads in general. If you have a suggestion or something constructive to say to improve something in the game you should always repo [..]
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4:58 am, October 7, 2013
or be as good a game as I thought it would be, or I would like it to be.
The developers/producers behind this game are NOT from the original Guild Wars crew. That is it in a nutshe [..]
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11:24 am, October 6, 2013
I made this thread on reddit and would also like to receive feedback from gw2guru community as well.
I haven't experienced the whole experience of PVP in Guildwars 2 (as in reaching level 80 and so o [..]
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10:53 am, October 6, 2013
So I've been playing for a few days now.
I just uninstalled the game after playing four classes, leveling up to 20 on several of them, and trying out both WvW and structured PvP.
The PvE game is mos [..]
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6:46 am, October 6, 2013
Mine was about 110 hours, maybe 100 if we took away all the time I spent AFKing and derping around in town. The time was quite similar for both of my level 80 characters, a mesmer and a necromancer.
[..]
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3:07 am, October 6, 2013
This is just me voicing my opinion after reading so many posts about people leaving and lower player number etc. To be honest i really love Guild Wars 2, I'm ex GW1 and the way GW2 plays is perfect fo [..]
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11:12 pm, October 5, 2013
Hey folks, it’s Chap again! There are a lot of changes coming in this release, and I wanted to explain the thought processes behind some of them. Today I’ll be joined by Karl and R [..]
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9:21 pm, October 5, 2013
Warning: this is a potential spoiler. This concerns a location at the Breach waypoint in Diessa Plateau There is a skill point and vista in that area, and while this thread doesn't [..]
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8:06 pm, October 5, 2013
I am just going to post some statistics here that I found looking at the differences between GW1 Guru forums and GW2 guru forums for the first 6 months of GW1 and GW2's releases:
Guild Wars 2 Sales i [..]
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7:57 am, October 5, 2013
With GW2 moving so far away from the standard MMORPG format of End Game (a good move in my opinion), how will this affect "standard guild activities"?
By "Standard&q [..]
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3:59 pm, October 4, 2013
Yes. I said that "A.NET has no word of honor.". I attack A.NET for the gear treadmill that they implemented. But I realized that I might be attacking the wrong people.
Because
A.NET is a s [..]
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3:59 pm, October 4, 2013
Hey, I can't get comfortable with my mouse and my razer nostromo when playing guild wars.. i dont like movement with my mouse only and when i try movement with my nostromo it takes away from my abilit [..]
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2:32 pm, October 4, 2013
With head start literally right here, and that being for most of us, the release, I wanted to make this thread before we all get into game. It was inevitable a thread like this would show up and right [..]
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1:39 pm, October 4, 2013
I want to start off by saying - This is NOT meant to be a post to complain about the game
I'm just wondering if anybody has an idea of what they plan on doing to add substance to the game's content. [..]
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1:04 pm, October 4, 2013
Hello.
Firstly, I'm sure this has been mentioned already, but I don't have the time or patience to filter through to find it.
It may also be something AN have confirmed to be an upcoming update, or [..]
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9:23 am, October 4, 2013
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/colin-johanson-outlines-guild-wars-2-live-game-development/?utm_source=client
Highlights:
"you know we have a long history of adding incredible free content a [..]
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6:32 am, October 4, 2013
I bought this game because it was going to get away from instances. It was going to be a persistant world. But here we go with Wintersday and what do we get a 5-man INSTANCE. Go bac [..]
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5:22 am, October 4, 2013
Ive just got back from working away on the mines for 2weeks to find that some prick has hacked my account and has been playing it. So i sent a support ticket in got password and account reset go to lo [..]
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1:54 am, October 4, 2013
Moderator Edit: Please note that this thread is not about the definition of the word "role." Think of it as a play on words for impact as opposed to a misinterpretation of what "rolepla [..]
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12:35 am, October 4, 2013
Continued from this post, which was off topic in its current thread: http://www.guildwars...90#entry2166336
typographie, on 19 February 2013 - 02:24 AM, said:
I missed GW1's beta, but I played since [..]
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10:02 pm, October 3, 2013
The Bazaar of the Four Winds is finished, the Zephyrites have signed their deal and flown away and the Queens Jubilee is in full sway! The Black Lion Trading Company is getting into the celebrato [..]
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5:55 pm, October 3, 2013
Hi guys! So I played this game religiously since the second BWE up until the first part of Flame and Frost. Totaled about 1400 hours played from Launch until then, so I pretty much did it all at the t [..]
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4:58 pm, October 3, 2013
ant possibly be the only female to experience this.
It makes me ill to experience this.
So: the gaming world comprises of more than just males.
I dont think this issue being taken seriously.
1. No the [..]
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4:11 pm, October 3, 2013
Lately, my off-server guildies (Ok, there are only two, but still... they like their home servers, and our guild vision lets them do so) are wondering just when we'll all be able to play together for [..]
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6:50 am, October 3, 2013
When you are filling in your map, getting that Point of Interest, and there is a pack of mobs after you and you decide to just run in and run out trailing mobs behind you....
... Do you run past so [..]
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6:02 am, October 3, 2013
Hi all,
Just tried to log into the GW2 forums. Found that I was suspended without any reason given and no time frame given.
I did not troll, insult or did any bad behavior. The only thing I did was s [..]
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2:49 am, October 3, 2013
In this thread we will be discussing the most recent addition of vertical progression to GW2 with the Lost Shores update & what it really means for GW2. This topic has a tendenc [..]
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12:30 am, October 3, 2013
I've been doing quite a few of these events in the past few days, some in the overflow and some on my own server, and in either case much of the time I notice a debate in the chat log about how the ev [..]
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8:36 pm, October 2, 2013
Lately I've been doing WvW mainly to explore the zone's maps and I've noticed a few things that would make this massive battle feel much more pleasant than it currently is. The system itself is intere [..]
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8:13 pm, October 2, 2013
Okay, so it's probably not a big deal, but it's still kinda weird.
I was in the swamp, fighting some monsters as you can see below, and I encountered this weird bug.
As you can plainly see, there is [..]
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5:26 pm, October 2, 2013
http://gamingbolt.co...ing-post-launch
Well I have to stay they were very very optimistic, but I think it's a good read nevertheless. I found this part really interesting:
QuoteWe had a huge Hallowe [..]
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4:39 pm, October 2, 2013
Scribes Note: The following journal page was retrieved, undoubtedly without permission, from the Zephyr Sanctum, and in 1326 it came into the hands of the Durmand Priory. The author remains unidentifi [..]
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3:16 pm, October 2, 2013
**** - this can be moved to the Questions & Answers forum.
Hello,
I've been away from GW2 from almost a full year, I left just around christmas last year and now I finally want to get in again.
[..]
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2:29 pm, October 2, 2013
Just curious to see what others think, not just about Flame and Frost, but about the entire concept of Anet's living story as a whole. Personally, I can think of a few reasons why I'm not so sure if t [..]
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1:49 pm, October 2, 2013
A rather simple question I hope someone can give some feedback on. I'm trying to find some good tucked away "dungeons" that are built into the world (admittedly for RP, but that's irrelevant [..]
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11:57 am, October 2, 2013
A note before starting; this is intended as a conversation about the story (non-lore) behind why we are fighting Zhaitan and where the story may progress from here. It is not meant to be bashing Anet' [..]
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11:20 am, October 2, 2013
Ok. With the game coming out at the end of the week I would like to know how you
think Anet has handled everything up to now.
How has their marketing been?
Have they communicated with their fans en [..]
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10:15 am, October 2, 2013
Although I am aware that the main developer in GW2 is ANet, not NC Soft, and it's trying to stay away from korean-styled MMOs I have to say this - both Aion and L2 had beautiful armor and weapon desig [..]
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10:06 am, October 2, 2013
When I first started playing, I was afraid that there wouldn't be much difference between zones since they were all set in the same 6 regions (Ascalon, Kryta, Orr, Shiverpeaks, Maguuma, & Steamspu [..]
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9:58 am, October 2, 2013
The recent fiasco on Ascended items has prompted me to pop out of lurking, so I typed up a lengthy blurb on the state of progression in Guild Wars 2. Hopefully this can spiral into some meaningful and [..]
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6:53 am, October 2, 2013
In a recent post on the official GW2 forums hosted by ArenaNet, I criticized ArenaNet for not disabling the WvW orbs because of an orb exploit that was causing a great deal of trouble. &n [..]
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6:45 am, October 2, 2013
Since I've heard a lot of comments in this forum and others of how people were "doing it wrong". Oh you're after progression/loot/etc, you're doing it wrong. Well, how are you supposed to pl [..]
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6:22 am, October 2, 2013
I had the pleasure of playing Lunatic Inquisition a couple times and had a blast. The first 2-3 rounds I was utterly confused and didn't had as much fun. Therefore, I decided to make a little guide in [..]
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